Lot 389
  • 389

Camille Claudel

Estimate
60,000 - 80,000 USD
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Description

  • Camille Claudel
  • Jeanne enfant ou La petite Châtelaine
  • Inscribed C. Claudel, stamped with the foundry mark A Valsuani Cire Perdue and numbered 1/8
  • Bronze 
  • Height: 11 1/2 in.
  • 33 cm

Provenance

Acquired circa 1995

Literature

Camille Claudel (exhibition catalogue), Musée Rodin, Paris & Musée Sainte-Croix, Poitiers, 1984, no. 22b, illustration of another cast p. 65
Reine-Marie Paris, Camille Claudel, The Life of Camille Claudel, Rodin’s Muse and Mistress, New York, 1984, no. 86-90, illustration of the plaster & marble versions pp. 177-80
Reine-Marie Paris & Arnaud de La Chapelle, L’Oeuvre de Camille Claudel, Catalogue raisonné, Paris, 1991, no. 32, illustration of another cast p. 143
Camille Claudel (exhibition catalogue), Musée Rodin, Paris, 1991, no. 59, illustration of another cast p. 92
Anne Rivière, Bruno Gaudichon & Danielle Ghanassia, Camille Claudel, Catalogue raisonné, Troisième édition augmentée, Paris, 2001, no. 35.10, illustration of another cast p. 119

Condition

The surface features a textured reddish brown patina. There is a small nick to patina in the figure's hair just above her center forehead, and another nailhead-sized spot at her lower center chest. The work is otherwise good and overall in very good condition.
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